Henry's Rant

1-17-07  Let us not forget the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and who it was that drew first blood.  Let us also not forget what President Bush said after the attack.  "You are either with us or you are against us".  I take this to mean that if you are not turning in terrorist's then you are helping them and that helping them means you are one of them.  The airstrike in Samolia was a good effort to kill AQ operatives there.  I understand that some of them got away despite or because of our best efforts to be surgical about the strike.  We are resistant to causing collateral damage and loss of life needlessly.  This is all well and good, or is it?  WE ARE AT WAR.  The idea of war is to kill your enemy, as many of them as you can as quickly as you can.   We did it right in WWII in the Pacific campaign when we used the A-bomb to cause enormous damage and loss of life at those two locations in order to save lives in the long run.  So to operate in that mindset in the present conflict we need to locate terrorist targets and eliminate them where we find them along with the people that are helping them by not turning them in or running them out of town.  In other words remove the locale from the face of the earth forever.   Let's also not forget that we are the sole remaining superpower and we have paid dearly for that position.  We need not be ashamed of it or shrink from using our power when needed.   I believe that we must use the full measure of our strength and the use of that strength will deter future attacks like the damage and death that was inflicted  on us not to end a conflict but to start or continue the conflict.